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Rain ending this morning, then mainly cloudy. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 early this afternoon. High 9 C. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Shohei Ohtani had a historic game at the plate Monday night.
Tonight, he’ll be aiming to do it on the mound as the Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-way superstar will start Game 4 of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium at 7 p.m., aiming to give the defending champions a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Fall Classic. The Canadian Press has more here.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani (Brynn Anderson / The Associated Press)
Romance author Laurie Gilmore will be at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m. to launch her latest novel The Gingerbread Bakery, the fifth book in her Dream Harbor series of cosy books (which includes The Cinnamon Bun Book Store, The Pumpkin Spice Café and The Strawberry Patch Pancake House). Gilmore will be joined in conversation by McNally Robinson social media manager Elissa Hall.
Today’s must-read
The ongoing debate over bail reform is “insulting” to judges and chips away at a cornerstone principle of Canadian justice — the presumption of innocence, a Winnipeg judge said last week.
Provincial court Judge Dale Harvey made the comments before denying bail to a man accused of trafficking drugs while in custody.
“(The accused) is presumed innocent at this stage of proceedings and remains so until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” Harvey said. “That’s always been a fundamental principle of Canadian law, and yet there seems to be a significant movement these days, supported by some leaders, or so-called leaders, of our institutions to restrict that presumption by calling for significant bail reform, which would no longer (give) primary consideration to release of the accused at the earliest reasonable opportunity and on the least-onerous restrictions.” Dean Pritchard has the story.
The Manitoba Law Courts building (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
An amateur fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever discovered — at an estimated 290 million years old.
Patrick Brunet said he found the footprint, which is 25 centimetres wide, along the shore of Hillsborough Bay last spring. Brunet, from North Rustico, P.E.I., said he was doing his usual walkabout when he noticed a curved-shaped piece of rock that had fallen from about halfway up a cliff.
“I looked at it and thought, this is the biggest footprint I have ever seen,” Brunet said in an interview. “I didn’t recognize what kind of footprint it was, but immediately I knew this is something important.” The Canadian Press has more here.
The 290-million-year-old fossil, at lower left of the rock, is shown beside a centimetre scale and a person’s hand. (Government of Prince Edward Island / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Oct. 28, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported France informed the League of Nations it would impose economic sanctions on Italy, joining Britain in isolating Benito Mussolini over his war with Ethiopia. Saskatchewan premier James Gardiner was appointed to the federal cabinet as minister of agriculture. Automobile mishaps in Winnipeg and the surrounding area injured 10 over the weekend, putting five in hospital. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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